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t -Mlf ywlfV4fin,KTVT -ylr 7-"V. -150THE INDIAN ADVOCATEguarded, vice to be routed, charity to be dealt out withgentle kindness, yes, and as is made evident by a glanceat this fair array of ladies whose gracious presence lendsa distinctive and delightful charm to your banquet-hall thisevening, you can find, too, in your own wives and daughters and sweethearts, queens of beauty as lovely and asloving as ever smiled approval on valiant champions indays gone by. They, I am confident, will encourage youronslaught on all the forces than make for corruption anduncleanness in public and private life, on graft and bribery, and the unspeakable white slave traffic; on immoralbooks and the lewd in art and the immodest in fashions;on the yellow journal, the indecent poster, and the suggestive post-card; on the vicious drama, the degeneratenickel theatre, and the erotic moving picture, or any andall influences antagonistic to the true and pure and sweetin American life and conduct.Just one word in conclusion. The most devoted patriotism need not adopt as its maxim: "My country, right orwrong." Its better profession is: "My country i with allthy faults, I love thee still," or that old time knightly declaration, "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved Inot honor more. " Even the sun has its spots, and wemust needs confess that, as to certain matters, it is only ina Pickwickian sense that this can be called the land of thesquare deal. Personally, I have both an abiding faith inthe victorious permanence of American democracy and astrong confidence in the essential fair-mindedness of thenon-Catholic American public, so strong a confidence thatI look forward not only to the day when our co-religionistsin this country will be freed from the oppressive burden of an unfair double educational tax, a burden whichso good an American as Archbishop O'Connell of Bostonpublicly styles "nothing short of outrageous tyranny,"but to that possibly later, but surely coming, day when hisCatholic faith will bar no worthy American from receivingthe highest honor in the gift of his fellow citizens, a seatin the White House. As one means of hastening thadate,